n.
A person with artistic or literary interests who disregards conventional standards of behavior.
[French bohémien, from Bohême, Bohemia (from the unconventional lifestyle of Gypsies, erroneously supposed to have come from there).]
bohemian bo·he'mi·an adj.bohemianism bo·he'mi·an·ism n.
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